Major rivers in Central India in severe flood situation -Vinson Kurian

-The Hindu Business Line

Rains may return to South by early September

The Central Water Commission (CWC) has said that major rivers flowed in severe flood situation on Saturday at 33 stations across Bihar, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Telangana and one each in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and West Bengal on account of enhanced monsoon conditions generated by successive low-pressure areas from the Bay of Bengal.

The South Peninsula has not witnessed heavy showers a couple of intervening low-pressure areas chose to look the other way and bore down on East, Central, West and North-West India. The US National Centres for Environment Prediction assesses that it would not be until the first week of September when the next round of meaningful rains can come to the southern states.

The WCC said on Saturday that at least 27 stations in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana witnessed rivers in above normal flood conditions. This is even as a well-marked low-pressure area takes its own time dropping its voluminous contents over Madhya Pradesh and prepares to move towards Gujarat and South Rajasthan over the next 2-3 days.

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